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Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780802849717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.
Author: Carolinne White
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2010-01-28
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0141943378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Perpetua shouted out with joy as the sword pierced her, for she wanted to taste some of the pain and she even guided the hesitant hand of the trainee gladiator towards her own throat' Lives of Roman Christian Women is a unique collection of letters and documents from the third to the fifth centuries, celebrating Christian women from across the Roman Empire. During a crucial period in which Christianity transformed from a persecuted faith to the official religion of the Empire, these writings reveal the women who chose to dedicate their lives to Christ, by embracing martyrdom or by adopting a life of poverty and prayer, renouncing not only wealth but also their duties as wives and mothers.
Author: Elif Hilal Karaman
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 3161556534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Elif Hilal Karaman examines the lives of Ephesian women in their historical and social contexts, considering in particular their roles as mothers, wives, teachers, and individuals in the private and public spheres. She presents Greco-Roman and early Christian sources relevant to Ephesus and relating to women, including more than 300 Ephesian inscriptions, and analyses them comparatively. By doing this she illuminates the impact of early Christianity upon the roles of women. The evidence presented demonstrates the extent to which early Christian authors utilized Greco-Roman cultural elements to construct a social background for the nascent Christian communities for whom they wrote. Elif Hilal Karaman's work thus advocates for the interpretation of early Christian texts in conversation with local archaeological and literary evidence in order to develop more nuanced understandings of the social and historical contexts of these important works.
Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0802872573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Bruce Winter explores the varied responses of the first Christians to requirements to render divine honors to the Caesars as the conventional public expression of loyalty to Rome and its rulers. How did they cope with the culture of emperor worship when they were required to give their undivided loyalty to Jesus? First examining the significant primary evidence of emperor worship and the enormous societal pressure the first Christians would have faced to participate in it, Winter then looks at specific New Testament evidence in light of his findings. He examines individual cities and provinces and the different ways in which Christians responded to the pressure to fulfill their obligations as citizens and participate in the conventional expressions of loyalty to the Roman Empire.
Author: Adrienne Yabouza
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2020-01-01
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1912868857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'At 49, Lidou is in his prime, a prosperous builder of houses in the Central African Republic and the proud husband of two beautiful wives, Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou. The only cloud on his horizon is the recent onset of impotence, for which he persuades a pharmacist friend to get him some pills. The day after his first dose, Lidou has a heart attack and drops dead, which gives his opportunistic cousin Zouaboua the chance to accuse the two newly-widowed women of poisoning Lidou, so that he can snatch his cousin’s property out from under their noses. If they’re going to keep what’s rightfully theirs, Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou must fight with all their might against a backdrop of corruption in which bribery oils the wheels of society, eroding decency and loyalty. It’s a weighty topic in many ways, but Adrienne Yabouza writes so lightly and colourfully that this is a delight to read.' Alastair Mabbott in The Herald
Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1107032245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Author: Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-14
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 052168711X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.
Author: Anise K. Strong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-07-12
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1107148758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom streetwalkers in the Roman Forum to imperial concubines, Roman prostitutes defined what it meant to be a 'bad girl'.
Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1997-08-28
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521591089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of Philo and Paul and the first-century sophistic movement.
Author: Katherine A. McIver
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780754669531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy looking in a new way at works of art and acts of patronage, the volume restores to visibility some women who were previously invisible in the historical record, and offers a more nuanced understanding of the place of women and gender in early modern Italy.
